9. A Greater Prayer

Jesus not only warns us how not to pray (long, public prayers to impress
others), He also shows us how to pray. The Lord’s Prayer provides some critical
elements that should become part of our everyday conversations with God, such as
praise, confession, and prayers for sustenance and protection. The prayer was
not one that Jesus Himself prayed, and it is not one that we should merely
recite as a sort of ritual. Instead, it demonstrates the utter dependence upon
the Father that each of us should know. In that way, the Lord’s Prayer becomes
our prayer.